The Producer's: Trevor Horn "Two Tribes" bassline

[iconic]

That old boy can still play a bass! Interesting series of vids, seems there maybe/was a CD out?

[url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IBWY8oAnnww"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IBWY8oAnnww[/url]

[iconic]

...could be Harold Bishop on bass...?

[BassBus]

Wonderful bass sound as well.

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Edited September 6, 2012 by BassBus

[Zenitram]

Great egg shaking.

[Chris2112]

FGTH's first album has some amazing basslines on it. 'Welcome to the Pleasure Dome' is particularly amazing.

[Zenitram]

This is great stuff.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qsrU71O2FyA&feature=related

[Paulgm1]

Agree about the tone he's getting there -like that.

I thought Norman Watt Roy played on some of the FGTH stuff or is my memory making that up?

[Zenitram]

As is this from the same gig.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPiqwvbegq0

And Anne Dudley is the coolest person in the whole world.

[mep]

[quote name='Paulgm1' timestamp='1346962090' post='1795482']
Agree about the tone he's getting there -like that.

I thought Norman Watt Roy played on some of the FGTH stuff or is my memory making that up?
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I seem to remember a mag article that stated Norm & the other session guys were jamming in the studio and 2 Tribes came from that.

[pietruszka]

[quote name='Paulgm1' timestamp='1346962090' post='1795482']
Agree about the tone he's getting there -like that.

I thought Norman Watt Roy played on some of the FGTH stuff or is my memory making that up?
[/quote]
Not at all, he did play on Relax. I think most of the Blockheads played on that one, that band certainly did the rounds for people, especially when they were signed to Stiff records.





Dan

[BigRedX]

[quote name='mep' timestamp='1346966202' post='1795564']
I seem to remember a mag article that stated Norm & the other session guys were jamming in the studio and 2 Tribes came from that.
[/quote]

Complete bollocks. Two Tribes existed as a song long before FGTH were involved with Trevor Horn and ZTT.

[quote name='pietruszka' timestamp='1346966251' post='1795565']
Not at all, he did play on Relax. I think most of the Blockheads played on that one, that band certainly did the rounds for people, especially when they were signed to Stiff records.
[/quote]

There certainly was a version recorded with some of the Blockheads playing on it. How much of that ended up on the actual release probably only Trevor Horn and whoever did the Fairlight programming of Relax knows. The article I remember said that while the Blockheads were more accomplished musicians than Frankie, their version still didn't have the feel that Trevor Horn was after.

Edited September 6, 2012 by BigRedX

[crez5150]

[quote name='BigRedX' timestamp='1346968082' post='1795598']
Complete bollocks. Two Tribes existed as a song long before FGTH were involved with Trevor Horn and ZTT.



There certainly was a version recorded with some of the Blockheads playing on it. How much of that ended up on the actual release probably only Trevor Horn and whoever did the Fairlight programming of Relax knows. The article I remember said that while the Blockheads were more accomplished musicians than Frankie, their version still didn't have the feel that Trevor Horn was after.
[/quote]

Very much this ^

[Dronny]

I thought that the legend was that Steve Howe played the bass, and Horn sampled it on the Fairlight?

[risingson]

[quote name='BigRedX' timestamp='1346968082' post='1795598']
There certainly was a version recorded with some of the Blockheads playing on it. How much of that ended up on the actual release probably only Trevor Horn and whoever did the Fairlight programming of Relax knows. The article I remember said that while the Blockheads were more accomplished musicians than Frankie, their version still didn't have the feel that Trevor Horn was after.
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The funny story went (I think) that Norman Watt Roy got called in one day by Horn, who got Norman to have a mess around sampling some stuff whilst Trevor sampled it on his new Fairlight, just having a laugh. Apparently the next time Norman heard his bass it was all over FGTH's stuff. Don't know how true it is of course, but with it being Trevor Horn I wouldn't be very surprised! Incredible producer.

Edited September 6, 2012 by risingson

[chris_b]

Norman had his Alembic bass sampled. I didn't know who did the dirty, but that part of the story is true.

[daz]

I thought Horn took Norms bass off completely and replaced it electronically. ?

[kevin_lindsay]

And here's Trevor playing a drop tuned P-Bass with Grace Jones. Incidentally, the DVD this is from is called Slaves To The Rhythm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=crsb7fdWflU&sns=em

[Dingus]

Watching this video has made me realise that I have been playing this wrong for the last 28 years. Back to the drawing board!

[Billy Apple]

Bloody love Grace Jones.. She's off the map and brilliant, totally hat-stand.

[RichF]

[quote name='Zenitram' timestamp='1346962177' post='1795488']
As is this from the same gig.

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPiqwvbegq0[/media]

And Anne Dudley is the coolest person in the whole world.
[/quote]

that is brilliant.

[lojo]

Really enjoyed that first clip, is it allowed (it's a cover?)

[wombatboter]

I recall reading an article about the bass-session with Norman Watt-Roy who was invited to play all kinds of fancy stuff on Relax..
He was very surprised when he heard the final result with just that one note and even that was send through a Fairlight.
I remember having an extended single-version of Relax with some great slap lines which you couldn't find on the single-version.
Perhaps those were left-overs from the original version ?

[paul torch]

[quote name='Zenitram' timestamp='1346961984' post='1795480']
This is great stuff.

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qsrU71O2FyA&feature=related[/media]
[/quote]

Holly's monkey gland injections seem to have kicked in.

[chardbass]

Pleasure Dome had some great moments. Man what an 80s blast.
Slave to the Rhythm is sublime too- such a great album.

Watching the vid above I didn't realise FGTH's bass player was as accomplished as this- that's some pretty tidy pick playing there.

[chardbass]

Seems this vocalist is a chap called Ryan Molloy

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryan_Molloy